IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE: I've rewritten some things about Andrea. She has grey eyes, wears black dresses and she was NEVER with Qweffor. Instead they were just friends and loved each other like brother and sister. Thank you.
The Winner of Last Chapter's Question: Nobody! That was a little hard… I'll make it a bit easier.
Question of the Chapter: What detail of this fiction did I base from Stargate? Alastor506 CAN'T answer this question, since he is a fan of Stargate and I already told him!
Hint: Stargate is about space.
Nevermore
Chapter 8:
Roses of Life Part I
Artemis went home to his wife, but not for long because Andrea already knew what they had to do. He was in a very sticky situation, Holly being his wife and all…
"Where are you going? Why do you have too?" Holly asked as Artemis braced himself for the worst. Artemis smiled fondly at his wife. Sure she was overprotective, but she was like that to everyone. And that meant that she cared about Artemis.
"I need to do this for the project. Isis and Andrea will be with me." Holly frowned. She looked upset. "What's wrong Holly?" asked Artemis concerned.
"It's okay Artemis," Holly said sadly, "I just… I just wish I could go with you…" After a few moments of sulking, she stuck her tongue out and stated sarcastically, "It's too dangerous for me because you had to get me pregnant!"
Artemis just chuckled and gave her a kiss… then another… and another. Andrea and Isis who were watching though to window snickered. Isis sighed.
"Oh, com'on! We don't have all night!" Isis yelled. Andrea put a hand over her mouth and they ducked, falling into some thorn bushes.
"Are you a complete imbecile?!" Andrea bellowed. Artemis and Holly were laughing inside. Artemis looked at Holly tenderly.
"I'd better go." Artemis said. He gave her a kiss on the cheek.
They were going to Andrea and Isis' house. More like hut, but it was their home. As they started walking, Artemis could swear Andrea muttered, "It's not like we're leaving for a year. What's the big deal?" No one talked badly about Artemis and got away with it.
Artemis smirked. "I bet you were upset when Qwan and Qweffor left for the time tunnel…" he sneered. Andrea turned around swiftly.
"Excuse me?" she demanded. Isis stepped between them.
"Yes," Artemis continued, "I don't even think they said goodbye." Andrea's face turned a deep shade of crimson, reflecting in her grey eyes. She was about to speak when Isis interrupted.
"Now, now children. No need to fight." She added smugly.
They reached Andrea's magical alchemy quarters in time, and things were back to business.
"Okay, me and Andrea have decided to find the roses first. Of course, to pick the roses you need to be a mind of great peace." They looked at Artemis. They both knew they had no mind of peace, and they weren't smug enough to object. Andrea was on the border line, but this was important. No time to be smug.
Artemis waved away Isis' bad grammar. Vampires. He raised one eyebrow. "You think I'm at peace? Sorry, at the moment, no."
Isis looked at her friend, slightly annoyed. "Well? Do you know a Buddhist, or something?"
"No, but I think I know someone who can help."
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Qwan was an illusionist, who Andrea thought was the closest thing to peace. Andrea probably knew Qwan better that his mother ever did. They were close, but every since the Hybras, things had been very strange between them.
"Okay," said Isis, "Artemis and I will go find Qwan and you stay here and try to figure out the next stuff. We'll be back soon." Isis dragged Artemis off, leaving Andrea to flip through her book. Artemis was slightly surprised that she had said, 'Artemis and I.' Isis was very confusing, as he had summed.
"Andrea?" a voice asked from behind her. Isis and Artemis were gone. She looked into the eyes of an old friend- Qweffor. Andrea went stiff. For the first time in her life she didn't have anything to say. So they stood there in the awkward silence until she couldn't anymore.
"Hello Qweffor." She said tautly. Qweffor didn't seem to understand why she was acting that way, so he pretended not to notice.
"It's been a long time. We should see each other more often. The spell duels. Remember?" Andrea knew what he was talking about. When they were little, her powers were very poor. He always used to try and teach her- then they would fight. But once you had crossed her, there was no going back.
"It has been a long time, hasn't it?" she asked, her eyes boring into him with such fire.
Qweffor frowned. "I didn't know that I would be in the time tunnel for so long. A demon was possessing my body. I would have said goodbye if I knew it would be that bad."
Andrea's eyes turned to the side. She couldn't bear to look at him one more moment. "You should have said goodbye anyways."
Andrea walked away, and tried to leave the warlocks' home. She passed Artemis, Isis and Qwan as she left.
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"So what do we have to do to get to this, er, planet?" Isis asked.
"Well, according to Andrea," Artemis said, "we have to say some magic words together with the name of the planet in the midst of the spell."
Andrea nodded. She had thought hard about where they had to go. This wasn't like Stargate, where they could type some symbols and enter a portal. "I just have to utter some magic who-ha and the planet's ancient name. In the Nox language. The place we have to go to is Tortactean Plate, or otherwise known as lukica portella-casta, meaning 'land of beauty.' "
This was something Qwan didn't know. Qwan and Artemis alike thought about their own planet. Artemis was the first to ask, of course.
"What is Earth's ancient name?"
"Unimalla ush forfillian." They all looked at her, waiting to hear the translation.
Andrea sighed. "Mystic blue marble."
The magic who-ha wasn't that hard to say. They all followed her. You relaxed and let the magic flow through you- then said the magic words. It wasn't like a magicians magic trick, though. You didn't feel the greatest during the process. It felt like someone was ripping you apart. If you opened your eyes, you saw stars and planets just passing you by. The reality was, you were passing them by.
Everyone had a magic of some kind-except for Isis, who had to hold hands with Andrea. The world they found was very different from their own…
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